środa, 29 lutego 2012

Heading Podlasie 29.02.2012 / Day 3

We had already seen some elks, roe deers, red deers, otters, so now it's time for a walk through the forest.

We began day at 7.00 AM. with a short walk before breakfast. Our visit in nearby forest we saw plenty of greater spotted woodpeckers and heared some black woodpeckers. Those greater spotted woodpeckers where at the borders of their territories and we could even see short conflict between two of them.
Shortly before that walk I've seen hen harrier hunting on meadows close to the hostel, and one young elk just at the opposite side of the road. To the voice of ravens we already get used to.

After breakfast we went on a long, all day long walk. Carring in our backpacks food, hot tea we decided to check nearby forest for any new tracks of lynx. Unfortunately snow was melting down very fast and it was hardly possible to find any of those. We had spotted few elks, few another greater spotted woodpeckers, treecreapers, goldcrests, firecrests, european crested tits and another black woodpecker instead.

We had our lunch at the viewing tower at Lawki bog (once again nothing's there), and then we had a walk on Honczarowska Dyke to the Ruff's meadow. During all walk we could see many signs of beavers activity, but any beaver. Even we had luck to find some beaver droppings. There was only one thing that rescued that part of a day - meeting with 2 groups of wild boars. This observation was very interesting for our guests as in UK there are hardly any wild boars.

During the way back to the hotel we helped ourselves with spotting lights on the top of the car and with torch (Olight Trinton M3X) which was absolutely helpful and it power was far better then expected.
While we were having dinner I led lecture about beavers using materials from FWIE. Guests found it well prepeared and interesting.

After dinner we decided to search for some new owls (and not only) with good results. Few tawny owls, few hares, many roe deers and maybe a racoon dog were spotted. Moreover we had heared something what could be Eagle Owl but we weren't so sure about it.

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